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To become a man is to be responsible to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Age: 44 †
Born: 1900
Born: June 29
Died: 1944
Died: July 31
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But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.
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I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
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Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
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Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.
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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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To live is to be slowly born.
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In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.
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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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